Splitting dataframe into multiple dataframes

Question

I have a very large dataframe (around 1 million rows) with data from an experiment (60 respondents).

I would like to split the dataframe into 60 dataframes (a datafra

Answer 1

In [28]: df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(1000000,10))

In [29]: df
Out[29]: 

Int64Index: 1000000 entries, 0 to 999999
Data columns (total 10 columns):
0    1000000  non-null values
1    1000000  non-null values
2    1000000  non-null values
3    1000000  non-null values
4    1000000  non-null values
5    1000000  non-null values
6    1000000  non-null values
7    1000000  non-null values
8    1000000  non-null values
9    1000000  non-null values
dtypes: float64(10)

In [30]: frames = [ df.iloc[i*60:min((i+1)*60,len(df))] for i in xrange(int(len(df)/60.) + 1) ]

In [31]: %timeit [ df.iloc[i*60:min((i+1)*60,len(df))] for i in xrange(int(len(df)/60.) + 1) ]
1 loops, best of 3: 849 ms per loop

In [32]: len(frames)
Out[32]: 16667

Here's a groupby way (and you could do an arbitrary apply rather than sum)

In [9]: g = df.groupby(lambda x: x/60)

In [8]: g.sum()    

Out[8]: 

Int64Index: 16667 entries, 0 to 16666
Data columns (total 10 columns):
0    16667  non-null values
1    16667  non-null values
2    16667  non-null values
3    16667  non-null values
4    16667  non-null values
5    16667  non-null values
6    16667  non-null values
7    16667  non-null values
8    16667  non-null values
9    16667  non-null values
dtypes: float64(10)

Sum is cythonized that's why this is so fast

In [10]: %timeit g.sum()
10 loops, best of 3: 27.5 ms per loop

In [11]: %timeit df.groupby(lambda x: x/60)
1 loops, best of 3: 231 ms per loop